The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-06

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equivalent in our advertisiHgc columns.
Again came the plausible excise, but
no reference still to any offence given
by the paper. During u absence,
May 2Sth, our Associate, Mr.. John D.
Ray, applied for a trip pass. to Wei
don-hen, for the first time, were we
told that it would not be granted, be-
cause The PROGRESSIVE FARMER has
e fit to ridicule our efforts to build
up aIhealth resort at Southern Pines"
This was the alleged offence for
which The PROGRESSIVE FARMER was
to lbe singled out and suffer the dire
displeasure of this Railroad, and in
this we have been enabled to read the
utnwritten explanation of the active
and earnest work Of that Road against
the Farmers Convention which met
in this city on the 26th Of January, for
the "ridicule" of our anonymous cor
respondent appeared before the meet
ing of that Convention.
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER, we pre-
sumo, is the only paper in all Central
Carolina, which enjoys the distinction
Of paying full fare for every mile it
rides on this Road. But, possibly, it
viii be all right when it dries"
A copy of this "bull of ex-com-
munication this official manifesto
against THE Progressive FARMER
now lies before us in all it's stately
and appalling dignity, and we are
made to realize the awful diminutive-
ness Of our littieness. W. are trying
to settle in our mind whether or not
we shall ever again say, or permit
anything to be said, through these
columns, against anybody,~or any
thing, Or any place in which, by posi-
bility, the lordly R. & G. R. R. shall
be directly or indirectly interested,
and we have about concluded that
we'll, that we will act by the R. & G.
R. R. as we would by any man or set
Of men.
And now we hasten, at the earliest
opportunity, to express to the said R.
& G. r. r. our sincere and profound
sympathy. They now "know how it
feels" The merchants Of Raleigh,
for reasons satisfactory to themselves,
have boycotted the R. & G. r. R.
They now ship their cotton and their
goods by way of the R. & D. R. R.
The said r. & G.. Road walked up one
fine morning last week to find the
| platform surrounded with scores of
drays and wagons, and to see about
500 bales of cotton loaded and hauled
off to the other depot in a jiffy.
And now a word of counsel to our
friend in distress-the R. & G.. r. R.:
This boycott may be hasty, ill-advised
and I'm ust, but grin and bear it like
a little man. AS we did. 1t is true
you got hold Of a blade that cuts two
ways and perhaps it is all right, after
all. At all events, it may result in
showing us a plan by which we can
dispense with the boycott. 1t may be
that the business men of the State,
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER and the
one hundred thousand farmers whom
it represents, may conclude that a
railroad commission could regulate
these little matters, and they may take
it into their heads to send a legislature
to Raleigh next year who will estab,
lish that commission. So let us all
keep cool-and wait-and see.
Meantime we presume the r. & G..
r. r. will continue to run, notwith-
standing the boycott of the Raleigh
merchants, and we presume The Pro
GREssIvE FARMER and it's friends will
continue to paddle along notwith-
standing the boycott of the R. & G..
R. R. Let us all keep cool-and wait
and see. Some things can't be de-
veloped in a day, you know.